# Wide-body candle — NSE scan

> A candle body more than twice its 20-day average on heavy volume, biggest body first.

Canonical: https://patternsradar.com/screener/wide-body-candle

```sift
where abs(close - open) > 2x avg(abs(close - open), 20)
  and rel_volume > 1.5
sort by abs(close - open) / open desc
```

The body of a candle runs from the open to the close and ignores the wicks. It is the part of the day that was decided rather than merely visited. `abs(close - open)` is that distance, and comparing it to its own 20-day average adapts the bar to each stock, since a 4% body is ordinary in one name and extraordinary in another. Twice the norm on heavy volume is a session where something happened, and the sort puts the biggest bodies first. Direction is deliberately left out. Read it from the sign of the move.

Category: [Volatility](https://patternsradar.com/scans/volatility.md). Default universe: top 500 by 20-day turnover.

Guides: [Scanning the candle body, not the close](https://patternsradar.com/blog/scanning-the-candle-body-not-the-close.md).

More volatility: [Bollinger squeeze](https://patternsradar.com/screener/squeeze.md), [Wide-range movers](https://patternsradar.com/screener/high-atr-movers.md), [Gap up and hold](https://patternsradar.com/screener/gap-up-hold.md), [Gap down and fail](https://patternsradar.com/screener/gap-down-break.md), [Up 15% in a month](https://patternsradar.com/screener/big-move-up.md).

The rendered page runs this scan against the latest session and can replay it across the last 250 sessions to measure its hit rate: https://patternsradar.com/screener/wide-body-candle.

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Price and delivery data from the [eod2](https://github.com/BennyThadikaran/eod2) dataset: National Stock Exchange of India end-of-day files, split- and bonus-adjusted, updated after each close. Not affiliated with or endorsed by NSE. PatternsRadar is a research tool. Nothing here is investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell anything.